Meet the DanceWeekend’25 Artists: Sara Porter Productions

At Sara Porter Productions – we believe that art is for everyone, both to make and to enjoy. We make performance, creative and educational projects that highlight play and exploration, based in personal storytelling. We take a multidisciplinary & inclusive approach to art-making: integrating movement, language, ideas, science and personal experience to build artworks and creative communities that centre on humility, honesty, rigour and investigative play. We centre our work on foregrounding voices that live outside mainstream art communities, including mothers, elderly, queer and new generation voices. The company’s work is informed by feminist and queer perspectives. Sara Porter is an adventurous performer, writer, and educator, working at the intersection of memoir + movement. Celebrated for her daring imagination – and sense of humour – Sara is noted for being truly multi-disciplinary. She centres her work in a feminist, queer worldview, and deals with the body as a point of personal reflection. She has presented her works at theatres and festivals across Canada, in Scotland, the US, and UK. Originally from Nova Scotia, Porter was a scholarship biochemistry student prior to starting dance. As an artist, she worked in Montreal and Edinburgh before settling in Toronto, where she lives and works.

An excerpt of a developing new show

Sharing work in an informal environment

Yes, we are presenting the full show – “Bad Poetry: Live in Toronto” – on April 11th-12th at IGAC Studio in Youngplace before we head off on tour to Halifax’s OutFest later in April.

It’s the way I live most fully in my imagination and talk to the world.